Laboratory

Question 1

Main speaker

Answer 1

Upper Class woman jealous of her lover

Question 2

Themes

Answer 2

Jealousy, Revenge, Rivalry, Obsession, Women, Femininity, Death, Hatred, Pain of Love

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

12 stanzas with 4 lines each

Question 4

Context

Answer 4

One of the most important poets of the Victorian period
Dramatic monologues established him as a major poet of his time and a significant influence on modern poetry
Married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
His dramatic monologues often described the disturbed minds of psychotic & murderous characters
He was writing in a time when Darwinism and regard for scientific progress was increasing, and religious influences were decreasing.
Inspired by the life of Marie Madeleine Marguerite D’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630-1676), who poisoned her father and two brothers and planned to poison her husband in order to inherit their estates

Question 5

Main language features

Answer 5

Repetition, alliteration, counteract, sensory imagery, alluring language

Question 6

Tone

Answer 6

Angry and vengeful

Question 7

Could be compared with

Answer 7

Funeral Blues (love)